Hard Sauce

1/4 Cup Butter

1/2 Cup Sugar, Powdered

1/2 Teaspoon Lemon or Vanilla or a Little Nutmeg

Rub butter to a cream in a warm bowl; add sugar gradually and flavor; pack it smoothly in a small dish; stamp it with a butter mould or the bottom of a figured glass; keep it on ice till very hard or pile it lightly on a fancy dish, like Snowdrift

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Hard Sauce

1 Cup Sugar 2 Eggs

1/2 Cup Butter 1 Teaspoon Nutmeg

Beat sugar and butter to white cream; add egg whites; beat few minutes; add boiled cider and nutmeg; put on ice until needed.

Cider Sauce (formerly Brandy Sauce)

1/2 Tablespoon Flour

2 Tablespoons Butter, Rounded

3/4 Cup Sugar, Brown

3 Tablespoons Cornstarch

1 Teaspoon Vanilla Pinch Salt

2 Tablespoons Boiled Cider

Melt 1/2 the butter; add flour, cornstarch and salt; when well blended, add 1 pint hot water gradually and cook 5 or 6 minutes; then add sugar; cook a minute; add vanilla and cider; remove from fire; add balance of butter and beat until very smooth; strain if necessary; serve with steamed pudding.

Caramel Sauce

1/3 Cup Sugar 1 Pint Cream

Put sugar in spider, stir over fire until melted and light brown; add very gradually 1/2 cup boiling water and simmer 10 minutes; or melt sugar in saucepan; add cream and set over hot water until the caramel liquefies.

Lemon Sauce

1 Cup Sugar 2 Tablespoons Cornstarch

2 Cups Hot Water 1 Lemon 2 Tablespoons Butter

Mix sugar and cornstarch; add boiling water gradually, stirring it all the time; cook 8 or 10 minutes; add lemon juice and butter; serve hot.

Orange Sauce

1 Teaspoon Cornstarch 3 Oranges

2 Tablespoons Sugar

Mix cornstarch and sugar; squeeze juice of oranges and heat it; when sufficiently hot add cornstarch and sugar and cook till clear.

Berry Roll Sauce

1/2 Cup Sugar

1 Cup Milk

1 Tablespoon Butter

1 Teaspoon Cornstarch 1 Cup Berries, Mashed

Cream together sugar and butter, berries and milk; wet cornstarch in enough milk to dissolve it and stir in slowly; let boil 3 minutes and serve.

Christmas Pudding Sauce

Use or not, as desired. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in small saucepan; add 1 tablespoon cornstarch; mix well; add 1 cup water and bring to boiling point, stirring all the time; then add 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.